Wednesday, April 25, 2012
If we truthfully and correctly answer the question posed by the title of this blog by saying "None are like God," we implicitly declare that God is unique. Now it can be said that each of us is unique. Yet, although this is true, that uniqueness is limited. We all have similarities, even if that similarity is only the color of our eyes or our hair that we share with others. For God, however, there is nothing that we actually possess in common with Him in its fullness.
But, if we are authentic Christians we must also acknowledge that not only is God unique, He is Supreme. Because He is supreme in all ways we are to submit ourselves to His authority because that authority is also supreme. It is He and not us who has created and established the universe and the laws that govern it, including the laws that govern our behavior.
Nevertheless, there are those who call themselves "Christian" but pick and choose what they will believe and obey from Holy Scripture and the tenets and doctrines of the Christian faith and what they will not. In doing so, they deny God's supremacy and His authority. The result has been a smorgasbord of beliefs and practices that at a minimum are distortions of God has ordained and taught and at the worst an outright denial of the validity of His will, His teachings and His laws. This is not authentic Christianity. Rather, it is what has been termed cafeteria Christianity and, in reality, is a form of apostasy. Why? Because, by our baptisms, we have promised to willingly submit ourselves to the supreme authority of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, God Himself. And the willful and purposeful failure to do so is a denial of the faith, which is apostasy. You cannot have it both ways. You are either wholly and fully Christian or you are not Christian. There is, as Christ has told us, no middle way.
